Live Auction 2855The Decorative Arts Sale
TWO CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE VASES
Lot 156

TWO CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE VASES

KANGXI (1662-1722)

Closed22 September 2010

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EUR 4,750

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TWO CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE VASES
KANGXI (1662-1722)
Comprising a bottle vase with a garlic neck, decorated with three lotus and scrolling foliage, artemesia leaf mark on the base; and a celadon and crackled double-gourd vase decorated with flowering branches, some very minor rim frits
21 and 21.2 cm. high (2)

Specialist note

The mark of the gourd-shaped vase reads base mark reads yan xi tang zhi '(made for) Hall of Swallows and Happiness', a location in the Imperial Palace, Beijing, used as an accommodation for the emperors concubines.